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Update: after verifying my complaints with other nurses, my administrator assigned me the shifts I wanted with my other patient. She's also contacting the parents to do teaching about providing a clean, safe environment.

I've left a report for DCFS. My office is acting like I'm unreasonable and refused to trade the shifts (even though there is an open shift the same nights at the home where I usually work), my administrator says she isn't able to change my schedule until December.

This month my agency has assigned me one shift / week at a home that is filthy. Dishes always overflowing in the sink, food left out on kitchen counters all night, moldy toilet, so many piles of clutter that I can't sit to chart without moving things. Can't wash syringes, etc without moving dirty dishes and having to wipe out the sink. I did one shift last week and mom admitted she was out of gloves but "too busy" to get more, even though both parents do not work - and patient is straight cathed q4 hours. Parents have a history of not refilling meds for a week + after they run out. Is it unreasonable of me to have told my agency I refuse shifts there?